inspicare

inspicare [CL = to cut in the form of an ear of wheat] , to sharpen. exacuere leves inimici frustra ligones / nequiquam ancipites inspicant acrius enses Frith. 843; quomodo pronuntiandum sit ‘instigo’ Virgilius ostendit . ‥ eodem modo ‘investigo’, ‘castigo’, ‘~o’ Abbo QG 6 (17); ~o -as i. acuere Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 549.